• n. 貪心，貪婪

詞源同cupidity,hope.

cupidity

cupidity: [15] The Latin verb cupere meant ‘desire’ (related forms such as Sanskrit kup- ‘become agitated’, Church Slavonic kypeti ‘boil’, and Latvian kūpēt ‘boil, steam’ suggest that its underlying notion is ‘a(chǎn)gitation’). One of its derivatives was the noun cupīdō ‘desire’, which was used as the name of the Roman god of love – hence English cupid [14]. Another was the adjective cupidus ‘desirous’, which produced the further noun cupiditās, source, perhaps via French, of English cupidity, and also ultimately of English covet. Concupiscence [14] also comes from Latin cupere.
=> concupiscence, covet

cupidity (n.)

mid-15c., from Anglo-French cupidite, Middle French cupidité, from Latin cupiditatem (nominative cupiditas) "passionate desire, lust; ambition," from cupidus "eager, passionate," from cupere "to desire" (perhaps cognate with Sanskrit kupyati "bubbles up, becomes agitated," Old Church Slavonic kypeti "to boil," Lithuanian kupeti "to boil over"). Despite the primarily erotic sense of the Latin word, in English cupidity originally, and still especially, means "desire for wealth."

1. Her cupidity is well known.

她的貪婪盡人皆知.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. His eyes gave him away, shining with cupidity.

他的眼里閃著貪婪的光芒，使他暴露無遺。

來自辭典例句

3. There was a glimmer of cupidity in those small, cunning eyes of his.

他狡猾的小眼睛里露出了一絲貪婪的神情.

來自辭典例句

4. It certainly was not worth throw a veil of innocence over such palpable human cupidity.

要在這么露骨的人類的貪婪性之上加以無辜的面網(wǎng),也當(dāng)然是不值得的.

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5. This text has mainly analysed and improved on DIJKSTRA arithmatic to apply cupidity arithmatic.

本文主要通過對迪杰斯特(dijkstra)算法的分析和改進(jìn)實現(xiàn)來應(yīng)用貪心算法解決實際問題.

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